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Jamie Redknapp compares Liverpool star to Luka Modric as Jamie Carragher demands improvement

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Jamie Redknapp has suggested Florian Wirtz could go on to become the next Luka Modric for Liverpool - although Jamie Carragher insists he needs to improve quickly if he is to make it in the Premier League. History doesn’t tell me that foreign signings coming into England take a year.” Florian Wirtz has just one assist since making the move to Liverpool (Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images) Carragher added: “People always say Thierry Henry and that’s nonsense, he scored 25 goals in his first year at Arsenal.” Redknapp then interjected to point out Henry didn’t score in his first eight games with the Gunners, to which Carragher responded: “Exactly.



Seven or eight games is too early [to judge] but once we get to January, February, March when is the time we can start saying ‘maybe this was a mistake?’ “Especially at Liverpool, players who are great foreign signings for the club hit the ground running.” Despite Carragher’s concerns, Redknapp is in no doubt about Wirtz, and believes he could follow in the footsteps of the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner. Learn more “I’m not sure if he is going to be that person that will always be sliding balls through, he might be at times like a Luka Modric,” Redknapp said.

“Now Luka Modric, if you judged him purely on goals and assists, you’d maybe think he wouldn’t be the player we all talk about, but he would be the player that would make the pass that makes the pass. Now that might be Florian Wirtz.” Redknapp added: “The intensity of this league, especially for some like him, it’s so robust, and he might just be finding it that bit more difficult than what we all expected, he might have to go on a little bit of strength and conditioning situation for a few months and get him even stronger.